so once again thank you so much to the
organizers because you are doing a
wonderful job and I have to be very
honest with you when I saw the wonderful
list of speakers and I received the
invitation my first reaction was to say
no I don’t want to go because the other
speakers are so wonderful that I don’t
want to use their time but then the
organizers civs students told me about
the topic even is the origin and then I
was deeply moved
attracted by the topic and I told them
well I will be with you why I am so
attracted by this topic then the origin
because in fact when you think about it
and we are here to to have a reflection
together it is an invitation to think
about a very rich contrast in terms of
the way we look at time are we looking
at time as something linear and by the
way this approach of time it is
something very modern and I would I
would say that this is a very important
feature of Western modernity linear
approach of time all all we look at
looking at time as something cyclically
linearity or the approach of time as
something cyclically
and of course since we are in China we
know that we cannot understand China and
the Chinese dynamics if we don’t
remember that for China time
traditionally has been approached by
something cyclically remember the first
sentence of the Three Kingdoms tenecia –
[Music]
Fangio it’ll hurt you – you see this is
an example of a cyclic ‘el understanding
of time and I will come back to that in
a minute
when I discuss the Chinese dynamics and
the Chinese or Renaissance but before I
do that I would like to tell you that
whatever we are going to say we need to
remember that we live in a world which
has never been so complex and I invite
us to put aside the notion of
globalization and more to try to
understand why our world has never been
so complex and when you think about that
a way to introduce to this to this
unprecedented level of complexity is to
think about the combination of four
factors of change number one population
we are in a wonderful business goal but
even in a wonderful business course
sometimes we don’t think enough about
demography but demography matters and
you remember that we live in a little
village of 7.5 billion people but what
we need to keep in mind is that in 2050
we will be 10 billion
and this increase in terms of population
is creating a world which has never been
so complex we could talk about the
increase of life expectancy we could
talk about the humanization phenomenon
these are all related to demography the
second element creating a world which
has never been so complex is of course
the technological change you know that
very well the digital space and you and
I we know that we live already in a
world of algorithms artificial
intelligence is everywhere and we don’t
know how things how these artificial
intelligence is going to impact the
societies in which we live but this is
clearly a very important factor of
change the third element creating an
unprecedented complexity is what I would
love to call power diffusion in fact I
look at you and I am amazed by what I
see I see of course people but I see a
lot of mobile phones mobile device and
since you are this mobile device in you
and you can do two things now the one
access to information this is new and
this is an empowerment for individuals
of course this access to information and
you can also broadcast we live in a
world of course of social networks which
is changing many things for our
societies and also for the way we
organize ourselves politic
and the fourth factor of change is of
course about geopolitics and we come
gradually to the topic of all day when
we think about geopolitical change we
always use the shift from the polarity
unipolarity
to multipolarity we like to use the
notion of multipolarity of course our
world is multiple this is not the world
of the g7 this is not the world of the
g8 this is the world of the g20 so many
countries do matter but today one of the
messages I would like to convey is to
tell you that we need to go beyond
multipolarity we need to understand what
we could call a multi conceptual world
we live in a world in which we do not
have one understanding of modernity but
several understandings of what it means
to be modern and one of the most
interesting example of multi
conceptuality is of course what is
happening in this country in China the
Chinese Renaissance is an introduction
to a multi conceptual world
what is this Chinese Renaissance in my
humble opinion well by the way you just
have to look around to think about the
history of civs to listen to what the
speakers are going to say and you will
have an idea of what is the Chinese
Renaissance but I would like to tell you
four things about the Chinese
Renaissance number one when we think
about China as
yet when we think about the Chinese
economy please let us stop to say that
China is emerging you know very well
because you are able to think and to
observe from the Chinese context that
when you take a story that is the origin
into account China is only coming back
to a position of centrality which was
the position of China for many centuries
what is going on from an economic
perspective is not an emergence from
nowhere but a rapid economic resurgence
so the West is very surprised that in
Beijing in Shanghai and all across China
the Chinese people understand that it is
only coming back to normality
the second element defining the Chinese
Renaissance that I would like to present
is what I would call China’s social
political transformation and this is
very striking for an external observer
the fact that when you think about that
when you compare today’s China with
yesterday’s China the Chinese
individuals never ever enjoyed such a
degree of individual freedom freedom to
travel abroad freedom to study abroad
and freedom of course to create a
company the internal spirit which is at
work in today’s China is absolutely
unique but what I would like to present
is the idea that the outcome of this
social political transformation will not
be what the West considers to be the
political modernity China is inventing
China is on the path to invent our own
political modernity in connection in
continuity with the Chinese culture the
Chinese history and Chinese political
tradition and this is a very interesting
concept that we need to understand the
connection between today’s Chinese
governance and yesterday’s Chinese
governance third and this is probably
the most important aspect of our
conversation China is not only a market
China is much more in my narrative than
a political entity China is a
civilization and I would even say that
China is living matrix of civilization
and when you look at China as a
civilization and when you try to
understand the Chinese dynamics you come
to the idea that from a Chinese
perspective but the world us to
understand to empathize with this
modernization cannot mean westernization
Kent I want to do eight shows even one
and therefore in order to analyze this
process we need to look at two different
things the visible and the invisible and
what is happening when you look
at the Chinese civilization the
metamorphosis of this civilization from
a visible perspective well I would tell
you what I see is not the fact that
Chinese people are abandoning
chineseness no Chinese people even the
jolene ho
Ling Ling ho even the young Chinese they
are trying to reinvent renew the
chineseness to reinvent what it means to
be Chinese this is the visible and the
invisible China is the fascinating face
and process not of abandoning China’s
classical tradition but in the process
of reinterpreting Chinese classical
tradition in order for China to enter
our own modernity and this
reinterpretation is also a reflection
upon the notion of origin from a Chinese
perspective time is flying but I would
like to tell you also that we cannot
understand the 21st century Chinese
Renaissance if we do not pay attention
to the unprecedented unprecedented
Chinese global projection China is
projecting ourselves orally through at
least eight vectors goods technology
people finance and company’s culture
military of course diplomacy think about
the belt and Road initiative which is a
very important initiative and by the way
not
jump into the unknown
the Belton Road would not exist as a New
Silk Road
we thought the ancient Silk Road which
was the connection between the Roman
Empire and the Han Dynasty always come
back a cycle if you wish and the eighth
in my narrative vector of Chinese global
projection would be the intellectual
global projection and this is new and
this will have a huge impact you want to
give me an example of this Chinese
intellectual global projection I would
use only one real name in contente
harbor you translation living in
community I would just let it die
community of Destiny for mankind do you
think it isn’t jump into the unknown
real aiming in community why there is
this notion that I fully support of Ren
Li Ming and Contin T well I think
because some people in Beijing
understand where China comes from and a
very important concept of the Chinese
tradition as you know has been the
concept of pattern the grand harmony of
the great unity and you can think about
renaming Lincoln County as a
reinterpretation for the 21st century of
this notion of padam so therefore I need
to conclude but it
takes us back to these two approaches of
time a linear approach of psychical
approach you know one of the most
profound elements of the Chinese
tradition is what you call in Jung the
this representation of the in and young
in a circle and I would like you I came
to you in a very simple way
I have no PPT and I have no photos but I
wait I would like you to visualize
imagine again this in young to you
imagine that and you will remember you
will realize that there is no line in
this Indian to only circles circle and
circles and of course the in is not a
the opposite of the young the exclusive
opposite of the young you know very well
that even the young and I’m going to end
by this very simple idea we are here to
think about UN the origin
what is UN I don’t think it is the
beginning I don’t think it is the end
en is the beginning and the end and it
takes us at another level of
understanding of the difference between
the West and China the West is not
comfortable with contradictions China
takes life from contradictions I’m going
to end now but I know that this end is
simply
a beginning this is the origin you can
see that yeah [Applause]
organizers because you are doing a
wonderful job and I have to be very
honest with you when I saw the wonderful
list of speakers and I received the
invitation my first reaction was to say
no I don’t want to go because the other
speakers are so wonderful that I don’t
want to use their time but then the
organizers civs students told me about
the topic even is the origin and then I
was deeply moved
attracted by the topic and I told them
well I will be with you why I am so
attracted by this topic then the origin
because in fact when you think about it
and we are here to to have a reflection
together it is an invitation to think
about a very rich contrast in terms of
the way we look at time are we looking
at time as something linear and by the
way this approach of time it is
something very modern and I would I
would say that this is a very important
feature of Western modernity linear
approach of time all all we look at
looking at time as something cyclically
linearity or the approach of time as
something cyclically
and of course since we are in China we
know that we cannot understand China and
the Chinese dynamics if we don’t
remember that for China time
traditionally has been approached by
something cyclically remember the first
sentence of the Three Kingdoms tenecia –
[Music]
Fangio it’ll hurt you – you see this is
an example of a cyclic ‘el understanding
of time and I will come back to that in
a minute
when I discuss the Chinese dynamics and
the Chinese or Renaissance but before I
do that I would like to tell you that
whatever we are going to say we need to
remember that we live in a world which
has never been so complex and I invite
us to put aside the notion of
globalization and more to try to
understand why our world has never been
so complex and when you think about that
a way to introduce to this to this
unprecedented level of complexity is to
think about the combination of four
factors of change number one population
we are in a wonderful business goal but
even in a wonderful business course
sometimes we don’t think enough about
demography but demography matters and
you remember that we live in a little
village of 7.5 billion people but what
we need to keep in mind is that in 2050
we will be 10 billion
and this increase in terms of population
is creating a world which has never been
so complex we could talk about the
increase of life expectancy we could
talk about the humanization phenomenon
these are all related to demography the
second element creating a world which
has never been so complex is of course
the technological change you know that
very well the digital space and you and
I we know that we live already in a
world of algorithms artificial
intelligence is everywhere and we don’t
know how things how these artificial
intelligence is going to impact the
societies in which we live but this is
clearly a very important factor of
change the third element creating an
unprecedented complexity is what I would
love to call power diffusion in fact I
look at you and I am amazed by what I
see I see of course people but I see a
lot of mobile phones mobile device and
since you are this mobile device in you
and you can do two things now the one
access to information this is new and
this is an empowerment for individuals
of course this access to information and
you can also broadcast we live in a
world of course of social networks which
is changing many things for our
societies and also for the way we
organize ourselves politic
and the fourth factor of change is of
course about geopolitics and we come
gradually to the topic of all day when
we think about geopolitical change we
always use the shift from the polarity
unipolarity
to multipolarity we like to use the
notion of multipolarity of course our
world is multiple this is not the world
of the g7 this is not the world of the
g8 this is the world of the g20 so many
countries do matter but today one of the
messages I would like to convey is to
tell you that we need to go beyond
multipolarity we need to understand what
we could call a multi conceptual world
we live in a world in which we do not
have one understanding of modernity but
several understandings of what it means
to be modern and one of the most
interesting example of multi
conceptuality is of course what is
happening in this country in China the
Chinese Renaissance is an introduction
to a multi conceptual world
what is this Chinese Renaissance in my
humble opinion well by the way you just
have to look around to think about the
history of civs to listen to what the
speakers are going to say and you will
have an idea of what is the Chinese
Renaissance but I would like to tell you
four things about the Chinese
Renaissance number one when we think
about China as
yet when we think about the Chinese
economy please let us stop to say that
China is emerging you know very well
because you are able to think and to
observe from the Chinese context that
when you take a story that is the origin
into account China is only coming back
to a position of centrality which was
the position of China for many centuries
what is going on from an economic
perspective is not an emergence from
nowhere but a rapid economic resurgence
so the West is very surprised that in
Beijing in Shanghai and all across China
the Chinese people understand that it is
only coming back to normality
the second element defining the Chinese
Renaissance that I would like to present
is what I would call China’s social
political transformation and this is
very striking for an external observer
the fact that when you think about that
when you compare today’s China with
yesterday’s China the Chinese
individuals never ever enjoyed such a
degree of individual freedom freedom to
travel abroad freedom to study abroad
and freedom of course to create a
company the internal spirit which is at
work in today’s China is absolutely
unique but what I would like to present
is the idea that the outcome of this
social political transformation will not
be what the West considers to be the
political modernity China is inventing
China is on the path to invent our own
political modernity in connection in
continuity with the Chinese culture the
Chinese history and Chinese political
tradition and this is a very interesting
concept that we need to understand the
connection between today’s Chinese
governance and yesterday’s Chinese
governance third and this is probably
the most important aspect of our
conversation China is not only a market
China is much more in my narrative than
a political entity China is a
civilization and I would even say that
China is living matrix of civilization
and when you look at China as a
civilization and when you try to
understand the Chinese dynamics you come
to the idea that from a Chinese
perspective but the world us to
understand to empathize with this
modernization cannot mean westernization
Kent I want to do eight shows even one
and therefore in order to analyze this
process we need to look at two different
things the visible and the invisible and
what is happening when you look
at the Chinese civilization the
metamorphosis of this civilization from
a visible perspective well I would tell
you what I see is not the fact that
Chinese people are abandoning
chineseness no Chinese people even the
jolene ho
Ling Ling ho even the young Chinese they
are trying to reinvent renew the
chineseness to reinvent what it means to
be Chinese this is the visible and the
invisible China is the fascinating face
and process not of abandoning China’s
classical tradition but in the process
of reinterpreting Chinese classical
tradition in order for China to enter
our own modernity and this
reinterpretation is also a reflection
upon the notion of origin from a Chinese
perspective time is flying but I would
like to tell you also that we cannot
understand the 21st century Chinese
Renaissance if we do not pay attention
to the unprecedented unprecedented
Chinese global projection China is
projecting ourselves orally through at
least eight vectors goods technology
people finance and company’s culture
military of course diplomacy think about
the belt and Road initiative which is a
very important initiative and by the way
not
jump into the unknown
the Belton Road would not exist as a New
Silk Road
we thought the ancient Silk Road which
was the connection between the Roman
Empire and the Han Dynasty always come
back a cycle if you wish and the eighth
in my narrative vector of Chinese global
projection would be the intellectual
global projection and this is new and
this will have a huge impact you want to
give me an example of this Chinese
intellectual global projection I would
use only one real name in contente
harbor you translation living in
community I would just let it die
community of Destiny for mankind do you
think it isn’t jump into the unknown
real aiming in community why there is
this notion that I fully support of Ren
Li Ming and Contin T well I think
because some people in Beijing
understand where China comes from and a
very important concept of the Chinese
tradition as you know has been the
concept of pattern the grand harmony of
the great unity and you can think about
renaming Lincoln County as a
reinterpretation for the 21st century of
this notion of padam so therefore I need
to conclude but it
takes us back to these two approaches of
time a linear approach of psychical
approach you know one of the most
profound elements of the Chinese
tradition is what you call in Jung the
this representation of the in and young
in a circle and I would like you I came
to you in a very simple way
I have no PPT and I have no photos but I
wait I would like you to visualize
imagine again this in young to you
imagine that and you will remember you
will realize that there is no line in
this Indian to only circles circle and
circles and of course the in is not a
the opposite of the young the exclusive
opposite of the young you know very well
that even the young and I’m going to end
by this very simple idea we are here to
think about UN the origin
what is UN I don’t think it is the
beginning I don’t think it is the end
en is the beginning and the end and it
takes us at another level of
understanding of the difference between
the West and China the West is not
comfortable with contradictions China
takes life from contradictions I’m going
to end now but I know that this end is
simply
a beginning this is the origin you can
see that yeah [Applause]
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